No where else in the world can you find the range of disciplines in one school. Over the last 50 years as we forged new programs, built our home in New York and expanded to our global academic centers, institutes emerged. Each are built with shared values, common goals, and a priority for putting students first. The result – a place where artists and scholars create the future.

Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music

Cultivate your passion. Take risks. Nurture innovation. Become an entrepreneur.

The Clive Davis Institute is the first and only program of its kind to provide professional business and artistic training toward a BFA in Recorded Music. We aim to provide students with the necessary skills — business, creative, and intellectual — so that they might emerge as visionary creative entrepreneurs in the evolving music industry.

We encourage students to develop innovative musical ideas and envision new music business models, work collaboratively, cultivate both intellectual rigor and a willingness to experiment artistically, and to assume leadership roles in the art and commerce of creating and selling recorded music.

Students who enroll have a wide range of aspirations. Some aspire to become CEOs of record labels. Some aspire to become record producers who helm successful production companies. And others are performing artists or music critics who want to develop their business acumen so that they might build a successful brand.

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Our industry has always been driven by creative entrepreneurs who have transformed the music business through vision, innovation and strategy. I wanted to create a program to help nurture future generations of creative music entrepreneurs who excel at the crossroads of art, business and technology.